Mainstream society has yet to accept video games as a serious form of artistic expression, and video game journalism is somewhat responsible for this fact. Safety's Off examines why journalistic tendencies for video games often fail to uphold the level of respect and critical exploration they demand and deserve.
Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 4 remake sales are now at over 7 million units, Street Fighter 6 is at 3.3 million and more.
The developers have provided a little band-aid while PlayStation players attempt to get back into MW3.
Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.
Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash
Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.
They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.
I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.
Because what you call journalists are just people under-educated or blog holders that just writes random thoughts.
When we talk about journalism we talk about people that have studied to work in the press, we talk about people that have been trained to writes articles or write in a decent way about something.
Not this trend coming with internet, with lame articles, those silly titles just to have some clicks on their sites or those news to maintain the console war because it's just what is meant to make your news read.
The video game journalism is failing because everyone has access to this and even the big sites or webzines are doing more and more trash articles.
This society reminds me more and more the one you see in the movie Idiocracy. Stupid media for stupid people (who play stupid games)
happy christmas to all the people that understand me me.
"Journalists" like Jim Sterling are the reason i cannot stand video game Journalism.
Because anyone with a keyboard can call themselves a journalist.
There are no standards. That's really all it boils down to. Whether it's reviews or reports, there are no overarching standards that all journalists must adhere to; hell, in most instances, a "publication" has no standards for the journalists it employs, and the journalists themselves have no standards by which they create their own articles.
Making this worse are two things: the websites that use these poorly written articles- but articles which, nonetheless, manage to incite some group or another by being less than appropriately objective- to get hits (doing it for the money), and the people that use these articles as proof positive of whatever it is they want to support (especially through Metacritic). Both of these actions create an atmosphere in which crappy articles have a place and, naturally, articles are then written to continue to fill that spot.
It's nasty, almost as bad as online passes and on-disc DLC. But this, perhaps, is worse, because poor journalism takes an active part in misleading the consumer, perpetuating fallacies, and otherwise degrading the credibility of gaming and gaming journalism.
Definitely some valid points in here. Some of these points are actually things that I've felt for a long time. Great job. :)